Strawberry Party Pie

Ingredients

• 1 8-inch baked pie shell
• 2 pint or 20-oz bag frozen whole berries strawberries
• ½ cup sugar
• dash salt
• 1½ tbsp cornstarch
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 pkg 8-oz cream cheese, softened
• ½ cup milk

Method

1. Glaze: Slice enough berries to make 1 cup. Place in a saucepan with the sugar, salt and 1/4 cup water. Bring to a boil and cook 3 minutes. Remove from heat. Mix the cornstarch and 1/4 cup cold water. Stir into the berries. Return to heat and cook, stirring, until thick, about 2 minutes. Add the lemon juice; cool to room temperature.
2. Beat the cream cheese with the milk just until smooth. Spread in the bottom of the cooled pie shell. Cover with half the glaze. Arrange the reserved whole berries on top, stem ends down. Spoon the remaining glaze over the berries. Chill 2 hours.

Notes

Garnish with whole berries. Serves 6. From Rosauers (Dessert DS-37).

Original card

The recipe above was transcribed from this scan of Vera’s original card.

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